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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs ABC trying to out racist FOX in the Twin Cities?
Looks like these two citizens, one a volunteer from Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, another a guy trying to turn his life around, are out with the Mayor and Police Chief, and an ABC reporter sends racist tweets to viewers. Needs to be fired, along with the station manager.
Lying, hate mongering ass clowns.
"What you are about to read and watch is stranger than fiction It's so racist and so outrageous, that people are questioning whether or not it's satire from The Onion. It's real though, and that's what is so shocking and heartbreaking about the whole ordeal.
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Imagine, then, the shock, utter disappointment, and disgust when the local ABC news affiliate, KSTP ran a news story on Thursday night claiming that Mayor Hodges dangerously flashed a gang sign with a known criminal and has put officers in harms way. Follow the trail below.
First, ABC reporter Jay Kolls wrote the following tweets before the news story ran live on Thursday night.
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Here - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/07/1342840/--pointergate-may-be-the-most-racist-news-story-of-2014?detail=email
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Is ABC trying to out racist FOX in the Twin Cities? (Original Post)
jtuck004
Nov 2014
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Puglover
(16,380 posts)1. This idiot
story is making them into a laughing stock.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)2. The reporter is an ass, and this ABC affiliate is
no different than others around the country: flash and trash.
msongs
(67,420 posts)3. seems to me the more important issue is the out of control police department nt
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)4. Yeah, that too. And it's everywhere. Like cockroaches. n/t
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)5. owned by big Koch supporter
Hubbard